Your Saint Louis at The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts

Often artists show the rest of us how undervalued items (objects, buildings, land) should be appreciated.  High-end loft districts often started as dirt cheap studios for artists.  Where there is art & artists there is transformation.  October 30th is the opening of the Urban Alchemy/Gordon Matta-Clark exhibition at the Pulitzer:

The exhibition programming will connect the artist’s social activism to present-day St. Louis. The Pulitzer, in collaboration with Washington University’s George Warren Brown School of Social Work, is organizing programs that build upon Matta-Clark’s desire to imbue abandoned objects, buildings, and parcels of land with new meaning.  The Pulitzer hopes to help carry Matta-Clark’s legacy into the 21st century and to inspire a new generation of social activism through creative acts.   An interactive web presence will reflect this community-driven programming at  mattaclark.pulitzerarts.org/transformation. Through art exhibitions, programs, collaborations, and exchanges with other institutions, the Pulitzer aims to foster a deeper understanding and appreciation of art and architecture and is a resource for artists, architects, scholars, students and the general public.

The Pulitzer is open and free to the public Wednesdays from 12pm-5pm and Saturdays from 10am-5pm.

The Your Saint Louis part of the exhibit may have the most interest to the readers here:

In this section, we want to hear what your community means to you. We’ll ask to hear your stories and stories from your neighbors. You’ll be able to submit a walking tour of your (or your favorite) neighborhood to encourage others to explore your section of the city, we’ll invite you to share your photographs, and much more. This web page will be where we feature your St. Louis and what it means to you.

This will be a great opportunity for each of us to contribute information so it continually evolves.  The exhibit opens October 30, 2009 and runs through June 6, 2010.

– Steve Patterson